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It's a literal example of "trying to be holier than the Pope" saying, as (at least outside of USA) the official position of all the major, conservative churches
by PeterisP 4y ago
It's a literal example of "trying to be holier than the Pope" saying, as (at least outside of USA) the official position of all the major, conservative churches is that God created stuff and mankind, but the Big Bang (answering "what was before that?" question) and evolution (divinely inspired) is part of how He did it, not a literal 7 days 10k years ago, so there's no conflict with science.
At least from Wikipedia, it seems that the only churches supporting Young Earth Creationism as theology are from USA - e.g. Seventh-day Adventist church, which have branches around the world but are (anecdotally, from my experience) seen like a weird fringe denomination; and the local Lutheran churches also see their USA counterparts as more towards radical/"extremist" side and it's not uncommon to see policy conflict between USA Lutheran churches and the rest of the world.
- tablespoon 4y ago> ...the official position of all the major, conservative churches... Isn't there a massive long tail of unaffiliated or "nondenominational" churches in the US? You'd miss that if you're only looking at surveys of official denominational positions. > and the local Lutheran churches also see their USA counterparts as more towards radical/"extremist" Which counterparts? Aren't there like three biggish Lutheran denominations in the US? IIRC, one is quite liberal.
- quantified 4y agoThat's not picking up up churches, that's picking up denominations. Southern Baptists are creationist and a fairly large denomination, too.